Posts tagged: #farm land

iEat Green Shares Interview with Rob Carpenter from the Long Island Farm Bureau

Posted on March 24, 2018

Hi All, Yesterday I had a great conversation with Rob Carpenter about the work he does as the Administrative Director for the Long Island Farm Bureau. The Long Island Farm Bureau is a non-governmental, volunteer organization financed and controlled by … Read More

Posted in Radio Tagged with: #agricultural industry, #Aqua-culture, #competition, #compliance to regulation, #economic and public policy, #farm land, #hofstra university, #increase in minimum wage, #L.I. Farm Bureau, #lack of labor and farm workers, #Long Island Farm Bureau, #Rob Carpenter, #The State of Long Island Local Suburban Agriculture;

In The News: Obama Expected to Sign GMO Bill; Major Food Companies Paying Farmers to Go Organic; Thousands of Venezuelans Have to Cross Borders for Food

Posted on July 18, 2016

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Obama Expected to Sign GMO Bill When Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2007, he spoke a lot about GMOs and his stand on them. A direct quote from one of his speeches: “We’ll let folks know whether their … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #big food companies, #blackouts, #certified organic, #Columbia, #congress, #crop land, #farm land, #federal standard, #food industry, #food insecurity, #food scarcity, #food security, #GMO, #herbicides, #international humanitarian aid, #Kashi, #major food companies, #manual labor, #organic certification, #organic farmers, #organic farming, #Pesticides, #POTUS, #President Obama, #riots, #transitional period, #Venezuela, #Venezuelan food crisis